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Anselm (2023), an immersive 3D documentary directed by Wim Wenders, will have its US theatrical release in New York at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center on December 8, 2023, and in Los Angeles at AMC Santa Monica 7 and Laemmle Glendale on December 15, 2023. This unique cinematic experience, which premiered at Festival de Cannes earlier this year, dives deep into Anselm Kiefer’s practice and reveals his inspiration and creative process, exploring his fascination with myth and history. For over two years, Wenders traced Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his former studio complex in southern France—now part of his foundation, Eschaton—weaving together pivotal moments in the artist’s life and decades-long career.

Over the course of several decades, Anselm Kiefer has transformed La Ribaute—his vast studio complex in the South of France, near Barjac, northwest of Avignon—into a uniquely immersive artistic environment, filling the 40-hectare site with more than seventy installations, often at a monumental scale. All are connected through an intricate network of paths, tunnels, and underground crypts. Beginning in May 2022, La Ribaute is open to the public for guided tours, enabling visitors to encounter an extensive representation of Kiefer’s work in various mediums, as well as site-specific installations by Laurie Anderson, Giovanni Anselmo, VALIE EXPORT, and Wolfgang Laib. 

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Anselm Kiefer has produced a new series of works for the Panthéon in Paris, including a permanent installation comprising six vitrines, as well as two monumental paintings that are currently on loan. Together with a composition by the French contemporary composer Pascal Dusapin, it forms an ensemble of new works commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron. This marks the first time since 1924 that such a commission has been produced for the Panthéon; the works’ unveiling coincided with Armistice Day, November 11, 2020.

Anselm Kiefer will be presented with the 2017 J. Paul Getty Medal to honor his extraordinary contributions to the practice, understanding, and support of the arts at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York on November 13, 2017.

On the occasion of Anselm Kiefer’s 2014 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Kiefer and Royal Academy specialists discuss his work and the trajectory of his artistic practice in preparation for his exhibition.

Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow sits down for a discussion with Anselm Kiefer, on the occasion of Kiefer’s 2014 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, for a conversation regarding his artistic process, source material, and the effect of history and memory on his practice.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a revealing video of the restoration process of Anselm Kiefer’s Wohin wir uns wenden im Gewitter der Rosen, ist die Nacht mit Dornen erhellt (1998). The work, owned by notable collectors Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer, is on permanent loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.